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I can definitely see how that’d be someone’s first thought. In general this is just a weird-ass question lol.

when you go to the dentist, the dentist and/or hygenist will usually work with two tools. If they need to rinse your teeth, they’ll first blast them with some ice cold water, and then they’ll stick a straw-looking thing in your mouth to suck up the water they just skeeted in. Similarly, when they’re drilling your teeth, they’ll use the little straw fellow to suck up the tooth dust so you don’t get weird shit in your lungs.

It’s like an oral shop vac, where your mouth is the mess. They use them so they don’t have to stop and let you spit. OP has Problems™ and wants to stick one of these things in their nose.

OP, please, just blow your nose or take a decongestant if you’re sick (NOT oral phenylephrine because that shit is useless). If you avoid blowing your nose because you get bloody noses all the time you can actually get that part of the inside of your nose cauterized. I used to get at least one nosebleed a day, and it was genuinely life changing for child me when the doctor stuck that swab in my nose. It was painful for a sec or two, but I only get nosebleeds once or twice a year now.

EDIT: netti pots are good, just make sure you practice good hygiene with those. Very hot and steamy showers and putting damp heat on your sinuses is also quite helpful in my experience as a lifelong severe allergy sufferer.

I’ve been pleased with my Ecoflow River 2 Pro for the brief time I’ve owned it. I’ve been using it as a UPS for my CPAP, and I’m planning on taking it camping once it stops being so cold. I can get about 2 full nights of use out of it if I use all the comfort features my CPAP has, or probably a week+ if I turn off those things (e.g. the humidifier).

touch foo; tar cvf foo.tar foo

My fucking autocorrect decided that cvf should have been xvf. I caught it before I hit enter to close out the code block, but wtf? When did my keyboard develop opinions on command args‽

Yeah, every now and then I take a step back and say “what the fuck did they build?” when dealing with some of the GNU tools. Twenty minutes later I’ll start complaining about how the BSD version of something from coreutils lacks a GNU argument that would make my life about 83% easier.

It’s like a sick sort of Stockholm Syndrome. I do genuinely like GNU coreutils, but there’s some baffling shit present.

ah yiss motherfucking cryptobiotic soil! I love me some cryptobiotic soil. It’s cool stuff, and it looks really neat close-up. For anyone ever visiting national parks in southern Utah, please stay on the paths. It takes decades for cryptobiotic soil to build up, but it only takes a second for a footstep to destroy it.

For those who don’t know (including me):

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

I could see the NT kernel being okay in isolation, but the rest of Windows coming along for the ride puts the kibosh on that idea.

I used to have this problem all the time, I think it’s pretty normal. I did many years of therapy, and part of what I got out of that was an understanding of how people deal with pain and anger. The best way to change someone’s mind is to try to empathize with their position and show your understanding. Once you share context with them, you can gently explain why you feel the way you do. Sometimes, you do this and find that the other person’s point of view is a more accurate reflection of your values and you change your mind instead.

Don’t do this with bad faith actors though. just block them.

I used to have this problem all the time, I think it’s pretty normal. I did many years of therapy, and part of what I got out of that was an understanding of how people deal with pain and anger. The best way to change someone’s mind is to try to empathize with their position and show your understanding. Once you share context with them, you can gently explain why you feel the way you do. Sometimes, you do this and find that the other person’s point of view is a more accurate reflection of your values and you change your mind instead.

Don’t do this with bad faith actors though. just block them.

I’ll throw in “folks” as another gender neutral option. I say “you folks” all the time, especially in professional contexts. I’m not from the South, but I have family there so y’all is a part of my vocabulary. I use it in more informal situations pretty commonly.

Android similarly makes it easy. If I just press and hold on ?, I get options for ¿ and ‽. Seems like mobile devices have worked out more convenient UIs for this type of thing.

I always have a terminal open in the workspace on my other monitor so it’s just <super-j> interr <tab> <return> <super-;> <c-v>

wait, that makes me sound like an absolute fucking nutcase lol. I typed that first sentence completely unironically and only realized how absurd it was afterwards. It’s faster than the whole “type the Unicode point value” thing, but I should probably start using compose key instead.

I fukken love me an interrobang. I have a shell alias on my computers that copies one of those bad boys into my clipboard so I can more easily display my shocked puzzlement. It’s very useful when dealing with msft products, especially Azure.

Yep, or when you’re doing EMDR and you open your eyes and your therapist is crying. That’s how you know you’ve hit the good shit 👉😎👉

Thankfully, that only happened once. It honestly made me feel better, it was incredibly validating.

Just wanna give a big ol’ +1 to The Body Keeps The Score. My partner read it and it was a game changer for her.

Based off of your comment history, it seeeeems like you live in the US, although I could deffo be wrong. That’s where I live, so I may have good news. It’s illegal to sell tritium products in the US, but it’s not illegal to buy it as an individual. There’s a Taiwanese company that sells all kinds of cool little tritium widgets: https://www.mixglo.com/

that’s where I got my vial from. It wasn’t cheap for what it is, but I think it’s cool.

edit: looks like they also ship to Canada if you live there. I’ve no idea what the laws are up there, but I’m assuming it’s legal if they’re willing to ship.

God, what a wonderful thread that was. I’ve decided to follow and star @mizu@lemmy.world so I can follow up on their future exploits.

Sadly, it doesn’t appear that they’ve posted in quite some time. Hopefully they’ll come out of hiding one day and ask more ridiculous questions.

I have a little tritium vial on my keys because I am a clumsy oaf with ADHD and the little greeny glow has been useful a couple of times. It’s great when I’m out at night and my keys yeet themselves out of my pocket and land in the darkest possible area.

I mostly got it because it’s cool though. Radioluminescence is fukken rad!

I could not have imagined a more fitting name if I had been writing this whole episode as a work or fiction. The world can be so fucking delightful at small scales sometimes.